Pakistan News And Discussion-14

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<b>US envoy should threaten to cut Pakistan aid : Bhutto</b> <!--emo&:clapping--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clap.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='clap.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<b>LONDON : The United States should threaten to cut aid to Pakistan to press it to restore democracy, opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said Friday before a meeting between a US envoy and President Pervez Musharraf.</b>

But in an interview with Britain's news television she voiced doubt about an immediate cut in US assistance to the country.

"I would like to see aid used as a leverage to influence General Musharraf as well as the armed forces. They're benefiting from the immense international assistance that is coming into Pakistan," she said.

"The signal that Mr. Negroponte should give is that this aid could stop," she said. But she added: "I'm unsure whether we should straight away stop that aid because sometimes getting aid restarted is difficult, and I think Pakistan needs that aid.

"Our people need that aid, but they need that aid coming to the people. It hasn't come to the people in the past." <!--emo&:flush--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' /><!--endemo-->

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